A Suicidal Woman, Roaming Pigs and a Noisy Trampolinist: Refining the ASBO's Definition of 'Anti-Social Behaviour'

Macdonald, Stuart

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2230.2006.00581.x

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“…Another boy, also 15, with Tourette's Syndrome was ordered not to swear in public (Hewitt, 2007;Macdonald, 2006). However, anecdotal evidence suggests that those with mental health problems (and learning difficulties) are more likely to be recipients of ASB control mechanisms, giving rise to fears that these measures are not being used to regulate harmful behaviour but discipline difference.…”

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“…Together with the progressive residualisation of social housing (Murie, 1997), this has brought with it a disproportionate concentration of individuals with mental ill-health living in social housing. As such, challenging, obsessive or ritualistic behaviour associated with a person's impairment (which might well be essentially harmless) may be perceived as threatening or alarming and therefore qualify as 'anti-social' (Macdonald, 2006). Of these, a high proportion experience what is described as 'severe and enduring' mental health problems (Cobb, 2006).…”

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The Role of Social Housing in the ‘Care’ and ‘Control’ of Tenants with Mental Health Problems

Parr¹

2009

Social Policy & Society

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Social housing is at the intersection of two policy agendas, namely anti-social behaviour and community care. This means that tenants with mental ill-health might at once be defined as vulnerable and in need of support to enable them to live independently, but simultaneously their behaviour may be viewed as a threat to the safety of others serving to legitimatise disciplinary and punitive forms of intervention on the grounds of 'difference' . This paper focuses on the role of housing professionals in the management of cases of ASB involving people with mental ill-health. It argues that housing practitioners are not adequately equipped to make judgements on the culpability of 'perpetrators' who have mental ill-health and ensure their response is appropriate. This raises questions about the training housing officers recieve, and more broadly, whether the competing policy aims of community care and ASB can be reconciled.

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The Role of Social Housing in the ‘Care’ and ‘Control’ of Tenants with Mental Health Problems

Parr¹

2009

Social Policy & Society

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“…As discussed, the Government introduced the PSPO as part of a wider refreshing of the legislation governing anti-social behaviour, with a new tool-kit of legal remedies made available to public agencies. The socio-legal construct of antisocial behaviour encompasses a wide range of nuisances and incivilities that are annoying, alarming or distressing to others (MacDonald, 2006). A local authority may issue a PSPO if satisfied on reasonable grounds that two conditions are met.…”

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The Banishment of the Poor From Public Space: Promoting and Contesting Neo-Liberalisation at the Municipal Level

Brown

2019

Social & Legal Studies

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With growing levels of homelessness, many municipalities in western jurisdictions are increasing social control of public displays of poverty through criminalisation, marginalisation and banishment. This has recently been apparent in England with the introduction of public spaces protection orders. Based on notions of localism, these grant local government significantly enhanced powers to regulate public space. This article uses the English example to provide a critical, empirically informed, exploration of how populist neo-liberal rationalisations about the street poor are finding increasing favour among local authorities. It charts how in a period of austerity, with municipalities struggling to fulfil welfare obligations to the homeless and other poor, banishment provides a cheaper solution to citizens’ concerns about visible displays of poverty in public space. The article investigates the troubling ways in which municipalities endorse a neo-liberal authoritarian approach to public consultations to claim legitimacy for introducing measures that target vulnerable minorities. It also examines how opponents, with limited success, have challenged such measures and the predominant neo-liberal–populist narrative associated with them.

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“…A prostitute 'anti-socially' soliciting trade may be trying to earn the price of a school uniform; a driver speeding down a residential street may be trying to save five minutes' drinking time. The loose phrasing insisted on by the 1998 Act's drafters (Edwards 2011) left it open to the wide-ranging uses documented by Macdonald (2006), but also created a space for nuanced and critical assessments; this was closed down by the Day Count's production of knowledge of anti-social behaviour. The Day Count suggests that certain acts should invariably be considered "anti-social", even if they are arguably justified and cause no distress, while others should not be considered as "anti-social" even if they cause distress and are not justified.…”

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How the News was Made: The Anti-Social Behaviour Day Count, Newsmaking Criminology and the Construction of Anti-Social Behaviour

Edwards

2012

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Newsmaking criminology' is an approach to criminological research characterised by critical engagement with topics being covered by the news media, offering greater engagement with public debate and reflexive critique of the objects of criminological knowledge. Two examples of Brisith criminological researchers taking an identifiable 'newsmaking' approach are discussed in this paper: the AntiSocial Behaviour One Day Count, a 24-hour comprehensive survey of reports of antisocial behaviour carried out in 2003, and the 24-hour Domestic Violence Audit, carried out in 2000. This paper analyses the construction of knowledge of antisocial behaviour through the Day Count, identifying continuities and discontinuities between the Day Count and the Domestic Violence Audit. This leads to a discussion of the strengths and limitations of the 'newsmaking' approach, suggesting that it may serve conservative as well as progressive ends.

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A Suicidal Woman, Roaming Pigs and a Noisy Trampolinist: Refining the ASBO's Definition of 'Anti-Social Behaviour'

Abstract: I would like to thank all those with whom I have discussed the ideas presented in this article, and in particular Andrew Halpin and the anonymous referees for their invaluable comments on earlier drafts.

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The Role of Social Housing in the ‘Care’ and ‘Control’ of Tenants with Mental Health Problems

The Role of Social Housing in the ‘Care’ and ‘Control’ of Tenants with Mental Health Problems

The Banishment of the Poor From Public Space: Promoting and Contesting Neo-Liberalisation at the Municipal Level

How the News was Made: The Anti-Social Behaviour Day Count, Newsmaking Criminology and the Construction of Anti-Social Behaviour

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